Leumpang asih numutkeun Kitab Suci henteu salawasna cocog sareng pandangan manusa. Naha anjeun leumpang asih, nalika anjeun bageur ka jalma sareng sabar sareng nyatujuan sagala hal, kaasup dosa jeung maksiat? Many Christians think that when you walk in love, you shouldn’t be harsh and judgmental, but respectful and accept everyone, including their (dosa) gaya hirup. Because of this new-age mindset, many churches don’t represent Jesus Christ anymore. They don’t preach and represent the Kingdom of God and the will of God. Gantina, they have become a social entertainment business that is based upon worldly principles and carnal doctrines of man. Dina seueur garéja, sin and iniquity abound and there is little or no more power of God at all. Let’s look at what Jesus says about walking in love. Margi, when do you walk in love according to the Bible?
What does the Bible say about walking in love?
Numutkeun Alkitab, walking in love means keeping the commandments of Jesus Christ. When you walk in love, you will keep His commandments and do what the Word tells you to do.
Sakumaha Rama parantos mikaasih ka Kami, kitu deui kuring bogoh ka anjeun: tetep anjeun dina kanyaah Kami. If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; Bahkan sakumaha kuring tetep paréntah bapa kuring, sareng tetep asih (John 15:9-10)
As written in previous articles, the love for your neighbour begins with your love for Jesus Christ; kecap.
You are seated in Him, dina Firman. Therefore you should know the Word. The only way to get to know Him is by the Word (Alkitab) because Jesus is the Word.
When Jesus is your first love, and your love for Him is greater than the love for your ‘self’ jeung dunya, sareng sadayana aya di jero, only then shall you be able to love your neighbour as yourself.
When you love out of the flesh (out of your emotions and feelings), then your love belongs to the ‘death works’. But when you love out of the Spirit, you shall first love God with all of your heart, pikiran, jiwa, sareng kakuatan.
You shall not walk according to your understanding, papanggihan, pamadegan, jeung parasaan. But you shall walk according to what the Bible says and love your neighbour as yourself. You shall forgive others and have compassion for people.
Jesus walked in love
Jesus walked in love by doing the will of God and keeping His commandments. He wasn’t a wishy-washy, Who approved and accepted all things of man. Jesus didn’t always speak gentle words, but Jesus spoke hard words, and confronted the people.
Jesus did not compromise and didn’t accept behaviour that opposed the will of His Father. And Jesus certainly did not approve of sin, but He reproved man of their sins.
Yesus terang, that sin is rebellion against God and disobedience to the word of God. Sin doesn’t lead people into freedom and eternal life but bondage of the devil and eternal death.
Candak contona alkohol. Despite the warnings in the Bible, many people drink alcohol and think they are free. Sanajan kitu, their way of freedom led to bondage of the devil. Their drinking habit turned into an kecanduan alkohol that will destroy their lives.
Jesus brought salvation to the people that lived in the bondage of sin. Jesus came to set the captives free. He brought the Kingdom of God and taught the people the Word of God. Many people listened to His words and believed Him and repented of their sins.
They gave up their Hirup sapertos dosa and became obedient to Him. They obeyed His words and followed Him.
How do you walk in love?
As the Father sent Jesus and Jesus yielded to the Father and walked in love by keeping the commandments of His Father, so you are sent by Jesus and you should yield to Jesus and walk in love by keeping His commandments (2 John 1:6).
The saints need to admonish each other in love. So that every Christian keeps walking in love on the narrow path that leads to eternal life.
When you see a brother or sister living in sin, falling back into sin every now and then, becoming disobedient to the Bible, or going after another doctrine that is not in agreement with the Word of God, then it’s your duty to admonish and correct your brother or sister.
If you love your brother and sister, you will admonish and/or correct him or her. So that the person can repent and be saved. (Baca ogé: ‘Whom the Lord loves He chastens and scourges’)
If you don’t care about your neighbour, you keep your mouth shut. You will accept everything this person does and let him or her keep on walking in rebellion and disobedience to God; dina dosa jeung iniquities, on his or her way to hell.
But if you do care about your neighbour and have the compassion of Jesus Christ, then you shall open your mouth, preach the truth of God’s Word, and reprove him or her of sin. Ku ngalakukeun éta, you will give life to the person and prevent the person from going to hell.
Therefore walk in Jesus’ love; love Jesus and keep all His commandments.
“Janten uyah bumi”
